Description

One of the original 5.12s at the Waterfall! This all natural gear line, starts in a thin hands crack through steep blocky rock. A section of vertical fingers follows until the crack tightens down at a very important rest stance.

From here, try and find some very small wires/RPs. The bouldery, cryptic, and powerful crux on side pulls and gas pockets will test you mentally and physically. A pumpy finish adds flavor to this classic recipe.

Location

Shares a staging area with Barbarian Rising,and Tainted Love which is characterised by large jagged boulders and sycamores.

Crux is quite sequential. Make sure you scope it out carefully at the no-hands rest before launching into it. I was not able to clean my stopper that protected the crux sequence which will make onsight attempts a whole lot more pleasurable. There is a huge difference in difficulty between onsighting and flashing this route. Seemed more like straight 5.12 than 12- to me.

Great route...Bring the smallest brass you have if you don't own sliders (I do not). I also found a 000 C3 placement mid crux. Tricky crux, but is onsightable because of the rest before it. Nice little head trip on this one.